Drupa 2024 Special Report
Drupa 2024 came to an end today, covering all 18 halls of the Düsseldorf exhibition halls. A total of 1,646 exhibitors from 52 countries and regions around the world, involving segments including: pre-press and printing, cross-media and pre-processing, post-press processing and packaging, the future of technology, material manufacturers, equipment, services and infrastructure, and so on. Among them, 443 Chinese enterprises (409 mainland + Hong Kong 10 + Taiwan 24), the scale of the current all participating countries and regions ranked first in the number of exhibitors, the exhibition area ranked second, creating the history of drupa, followed by Germany's local 396, Italy 139. Chinese exhibitors have made remarkable progress in recent years in terms of digitalization, intelligence and greening.
During Drupa, while visiting exhibitors, the CHINA PRINT 2025 Promotion Team, under the leadership of Yang Bin, Vice Chairman of China Printing Industry Association, deepened the close connection between CHINA PRINT and the global printing industry by meeting with overseas printing associations and holding a press conference, etc. The team will recruit more overseas exhibitors and organize more overseas professional visitors to CHINA PRINT 2025 to exhibit and visit, laying a solid foundation for the success of the show.
1.Digitalize trend is the most obvious signature
In this exhibition, digital printing has once again become the focus of attention, as recently drupa exhibition organizers released the drupa 2024 guide "said: regardless of the size, region or market, all printing enterprises must recognize the digital printing industry to bring great changes, the next long period of time digital printing and traditional printing will co-exist in the development.
2.The printing industry automation level is get improving constantly
How to make the equipment become more automated, interconnected and efficient is currently the focus of most of the printing machine brand owners. Through the introduction of automation control system, post-press equipment and pre-press, printing line synergistic integration of work, the printing machine can realize automatic loading, automatic adjustment, automatic detection and other functions. At this year's Drupa, Heidelberg brought Speedmaster XL 106, which can realize automatic plate loading, automatic plate changing, the shortest changeover time, fully automated intelligent operating system, and the production speed is increased to 21,000 prints/hour; Konigsbauer, Konica Minolta, Fujifilm, Goodwill, Canon, Kodak, and other exhibitors are also through the demonstration of a number of systems and solutions that contribute to the automation of modern factories, and to the The audience to convey a message - the printing industry automation, digitalization, intelligence level is constantly improving.
3.Intelligence is an important development direction for modern manufacturing
The global printing industry has begun to progress into the 5.0 era, intelligence is an important development direction of modern manufacturing. The application of intelligent technology enables the printing machine to have the ability of self-learning and self-optimization, which can automatically adjust the parameters according to the production demand and further improve the production efficiency. In this year's drupa, many vendors such as Lantech, Lingyunlight, Masterpiece and others released systems with AI modules, especially in the application of print defect calibration and color correction, which empowers print quality inspection and management.
4.Sustainable/continuous development getting increasingly important
The trend of sustainability is also one of the highlights of this year's drupa presentation. Until a viable environmentally friendly solution is found, digital manufacturers are promoting paper as an alternative to plastic film, such as HP Indigo with its ElectroInk technology, SciCom with its anti-scratch and heat-sealable Titon dry toner, and Screen with its Truepress PAC water-based inkjet platform. In addition, water-based printing is becoming more and more common in corrugated packaging, with HP leading the field with its PWI division's pre-press and post-press technologies, and Fujifilm, Canon, Hanwha and others, all of which have exciting exhibits at this year's drupa.
5.Chinese exhibitors amount breaking the history data, its showing the world “Chinese Power”
At this year's drupa, 443 Chinese exhibitors (409 from mainland China + 10 from Hong Kong + 24 from Taiwan), the scale of which ranked first in the number of exhibitors from all participating countries and regions, and the exhibition area ranked second, creating a history of drupa. Chinese exhibitors have made remarkable progress in recent years in terms of digitalization, intelligence and greening.
Chinese enterprises exhibited many innovative technologies and solutions that led the global industry trend, showing the world the "China Power" of the printing industry.
6.Comparing with several former Exhibitions,the number of visitors in Drupa2024 declined, but with the compensate of the increase of the quality
According to the visiting enterprises, this drupa exhibition compared with the previous sessions, although the number of exhibitors, exhibition area and the number of visitors has declined, but the overall quality of the audience is good, more mid-end and high-end customers, the on-site turnover rate is higher, the results of the overseas business expansion is remarkable, overseas orders to help growth. At the same time, Henan Grand Intelligent Printing Group Co., Ltd, Cimpress Company, Heshan Astros, Jiexun Jia Cai, etc. all signed contracts to buy equipment at the exhibition site.
Article from "CPP114 Printing & Packaging"